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"Sam… go on without me…" Danny moaned. The pamphlet for the Academy had warned about the staircase up to the school but Danny found that he was completely unprepared for that first challenge.
"Come on Danny, there are only like a hundred more." Sam said, she had yet to start breathing heavily. She had always been more physically fit than the young hero. "Come on, you're going to be my meister. You need to get into shape."
Danny groaned. "I swear, I am going to go back in time, find the guy who invented stairs, bring him here, and then throw him down these stairs."
"I don't think that Clockwork would let you do that." Sam said skeptically bringing up the ghost who guarded the timeline.
As they stood there a girl ran past them. She had wheat colored hair done up in pigtail and she was wearing a black trench coat and combat boots. Turning her head towards them she shouted. "Don't give up. You're almost there." Then she continued up the staircase.
Sam grinned at Danny. "See, you're really out of shape for a meister."
"Yeah, I know." Danny mumbled as he lifted his suitcase back up again and continued up the stairs.
Danny felt like he was about to die again by the time they reached the top of the stair. "I… I made it." Danny mumbled looking up. Then he spotted a boy in a suit with a slick hair cut that had three white strips on the left side of his head flying away on a flying skateboard. "Ha… that's cheating."
"Stop complaining." Sam said grabbing Danny by the collar and starting to pull him along. "Come on, we're going to be late for orientation."
Walking into the building they couldn't help but looking around in a little awe. The spacious and brightly light structure was full of people going about their everyday tasks before class. Even though they knew that all the weapons that they could see going down the halls were people, it was still surprising to hear their voices.
"So this is the legendary DWMA that has trained most of the heroes that guard world peace." Sam said looking around. "Sure beat Casper Middle School."
"That's for sure." Danny nodded in agreement. "Where do you think we are supposed to be going? We don't even know where the orientation room is."
"I don't know, maybe we should ask for directions or something." Sam said looking around.
"What? But Sam, bad things always happen when we try to…" Danny whined but stopped as she threw him a glare. Danny sighed. "Fine." Looking around Danny spotted a guy standing a few feet away. "Excuse me could you…"
"You think you can stand up to me! Not in a million year!" Someone shouted and Sam saw a boy dashing around going straight for the guy Danny was about to talk to. The kid was short, probably only five feet tall, was dressed up in a sleeveless ninja suit and had spiked up blue hair and a tattoo of a star on his shoulder.
He delivered a devastating punch to the face of the guy Danny was trying to get the attention off and knocked him back into Danny who was sent flying into the wall hard enough to crack the billboard behind him. Danny slide down to the ground as the unconscious student that had flown into him fell off to the ground.
The blue haired kid put his hands on his waist began to laugh. "That will teach you to stand against the great Black Star!" He boasted.
"What the heck do you think you're doing you idiot!" Sam shouted at the boy startling him. "You just flattened my friend!"
"What?" Black Star said looking over and seeing Danny against the wall. "Woops guess I didn't see him there. But it's so hard to keep track of those kinds of things when you're as big as I am."
"Oh great oblivious and delusional." Sam said crossing her arms.
"What?" Black Star said his voice a little loud. "Ha are you trying to start something?"
"Black Star, please." A girl came up behind the boy. She was tall and had delicate features like a flower. Her long black hair tied back in a ponytail and she too was in a ninja suit with a star over her right breast. She turned to Sam and Danny. "I'm really sorry. Black Star tends to be a little bit careless, please forgive him."
"Why should we when he doesn't even seem to be slightly sorry." Sam said angrily.
"Sam, it's all right I'm fine." Danny said getting up and rubbing his soar head. "It isn't like this is the first time I have been thrown into a wall."
"See, he's cool about it. He understands that it is an honor to be caught up in one of my fight, because I am BLACK STAR, the man how will surpass god!" Black Star shouted loudly. Sam turned her hand into a slab of metal and karate chopped the boy in the head.
The two of them continued to argue and soon both Danny and the new girl gave up trying to calm down their friends. "Sorry about Sam, she really is a good person, but she has a hard time letting things go." Danny apologized for his friend. "I'm Danny by the way."
"No I should be the one saying sorry, you get hurt because of my partner. I'm Tsubaki and Black Star is my meister." She said bowing her head in apology.
"Don't worry. We're pretty used to it." Danny said nodding. Then he remembered why he had been caught up in that in the first place. "Oh, I don't suppose you could give us directions to where the orientation is?"
"Oh, your new students, welcome to the DWMA." Tsubaki said with a smile.
"Wait you need directions? Sure we'll take you!" Black Star shouted seemingly distracted from his argument with Sam.
"What, but Black Star, we need to get to class." Tsubaki said a little worried.
"Huh you worry too much, Tsubaki. I have to show these two how sorry I am and that I'm the bigger man by helping them find their way." Black Star said putting his hands on his side and straightening up again. Danny felt a little inferior to the other meister, despite being short the guy was completely ripped and Danny had yet to see his confident grin leave his face. "And it isn't like someone as great as me needs to go to class anyways." He then began to laugh loudly causing Sam to rub her temples.
Sure enough Black Star did lead them all the way to the orientation room. Even Sam was secretly grateful. The school was built like a maze and they would have gotten lost without his help.
"Thanks for showing us the way." Danny said as they arrived at right door.
"Don't worry about it. Everyone gets lost on their first day, well except for me of course." Black Star boasted as Tsubaki rolled her eyes as if to say that he gotten lost too. "Oh and here." Black Star said handing Danny a piece of paper. "Think of it as an apology." He said before running off. "Come on Tsubaki, we can't be too late, that wouldn't be right for someone as big as me!"
Tsubaki sighed gave Danny and Sam a short bow before running off to catch up to her meister. Looking down at the paper he found that it was Black Star's autograph. "That guy is so annoying, he makes me feel like I need a nap." Sam said.
"He wasn't that bad." Danny said trying to calm down his friend. "He just has a few… socializing issues." Danny then tried to lead her into the room.
Anastasia Yngling was no ordinary girl, much to her own displeasure, she was the princess of a wealthy country and as such her life have been controlled by her parents, advisers and attendants. But the one thing that she had always wanted to do was to run away from it all, to live in the world of commoners.
She had never really met a commoner before but she had an idea in her mind of what they were. She had heard stories and fairytales of the average but brave people who lived such carefree lives but beautiful lives.
And so with the help of her favorite teacher she planned her escape from her own home, the land that acted like a prison for her. She ran away and entered a Meister qualification tournament and easily won using her royal karate style, allowing her entrance into her sanctuary, Death City. She believed that she would be able to live among the commoners and be safe from being dragged back to her home land. After all, members of the DWMA were under the protection of Lord Death himself, and only a madman would try to drag one of his students away against their will. So the princess entered the academy under the alias, Anya Hepburn, in order to meet some commoners and make some real friends.
The princess sighed as she looked out the window in the orientation room of the DWMA. "I slipped out of that cramped castle, and came here to see the commoner's world, but this place was the choice." She looked around at the assembled students. "There's no way that the commoners that I'm picturing would be in a specialized school like this. I'm such a birdbrain. All these students here are so unusual."
"Excuse us." Anya turned her head to the door as she heard the voice. "Sorry we're late, we got… caught up in something." The speaker was a girl, she had black hair done up in a small ponytail and violet eyes, he clothes there very strange being a purple and black outfit, one of the options for the uniforms at the Academy. It was clear that she was making a statement of some kind, even if Anya couldn't tell what it was.
"Don't worry but in the future you should make time in you're schedules for the unexpected. Thing happen at this school, that just the kind of place it is." The African American teacher, Sid, said as he looked at the new comers. He was rather big and wore a headband, he was not the average teacher that Anya had been hoping for.
But Anya's eyes widened as she saw the boy who had came with the girl. "That's it." She said to herself. The boy had black hair in a non-descriptive style, he had no figure or build to speak of and his uniform was a casual choice of an ordinary pair of jean shorts and a t-shirt with a jacket over it. He had a pleasant smile and soft features that seemed cute to the runaway princess even though she almost overlooked him because of his underwhelming presents. "A commoner."
"So give me your name and whether you're a weapon or a meister." Sid said looking at a clipboard.
"I'm Sam Manson, I'm a weapon." Sam said confidently. Sid nodded writing something down and handing the girl a pin that said 'weapon'.
"And you?" Sid asked looking up and down the boy. "Are you a weapon too?"
The boy looked taken aback. "What? No, I'm Danny Fenton, I'm a meister."
Sid blinked at the boy in shock. But then a look of remembrance crossed his face. "The one that Stein let in." He said shortly nodding before handing the boy a 'meister' pin. "Try not to get hurt." Sid said before they turned and walked away.
"What was that about?" Danny said slight indignant. "Is it really that hard to believe that I'm a meister?"
"Well, you're short, scrawny, out of shape, you lack outward confidence and motivation…" Sam started listing things off.
"Ok I get it, I'm a loser." Danny said rolling his eyes as Sam began to laugh.
"You're not a loser Danny, you're just unmotivated. And the teacher probably heard about the fact that you didn't really win the tournament back in Amity Park." Sam justified. Danny and Sam had been two of the last people to arrive. The only ones to arrive after them was a normal looking girl with average length black hair and a rather flat chest but a cute face and smile, as Anya would say, 'a commoner'. The girl was a weapon and her name was Tsugumi. Shortly after her were two boys, a middle height blond boy whose stance and attitude spoke of white trash who was a weapon and a giant guy with black hair that seemed to be trying to intimidate everyone with his sure size and huge build, he was a meister. Each of them looked to be around seventeen or eighteen, much older than most of the other students.
"That's everybody, right?" Sid said as he walked to the front of the room behind a small pedestal. "Welcome to the DWMA. I'm Sid, one of the teachers here. There are those of you here who transform into weapons, and those of you who wish to be meisters, who fight with the weapons. There are probably those of you among the weapons who are not yet able to transform under your own will yet. But there is no rush. This is the school where you will learn that."
Sam felt a little embarrassed, she could transform her hands at will, but she had yet to fully transform into a weapon in the week since she had first found out she was a weapon.
"How lame." The blond weapon said in a smug voice. "You got people like that here?"
Sam glared at him as was about to give him a piece of her mind but she felt a small tug on her sleeve and turned to see Danny shaking his head. With a small sigh she pushed down the urge to knock the white trash kid out.
"From here on, you will have to choose partners; meisters with weapons, and weapons with meisters." Sid said as he wrote it on the board. Danny and Sam had already decided to be partners, it was the entire reason Danny had come along. "For still-inexperienced weapons in particular, the meister you partner with is important. Just as one cannot become a parent without a child, without a meister that can use a weapon, it will be difficult to become a weapon. Take your time and find a partner you have good chemistry with. I'm not an eloquent man, that's just not the kind of man I am. I think it will be quicker for you to understand if you actually see partners with matching wavelengths for yourselves. Come on in."
The door opened and two students came in stopping in the middle of the room, a boy and a girl. Danny and Sam recognized the girl as the one from the stairs, the boy with her was dressed rather casually and had white hair and blood red eyes. His teeth were razor sharp and reminded the freshmen of a shark's. "These are your upperclassmen, the meister Maka Albarn, and the weapon Soul Eater." The name raised a few eyebrows.
The girl stepped forward. "Nice to meet you all. I'm Maka." She said and then looked at the group. She smiled when she saw Tsugumi standing in the crowd.
"Okay, you two, begin." Sid said to the two who nodded. The boy glowed with a bright blue light that engulfed his form. The light twisted and flew into the air before turning into an enormous scythe with a steel handle and a black and crimson blade.
"He transformed into a weapon!" Tsugumi said in surprise as the freshmen moved to the windows to give the seniors room.
"Harudori, you're a weapon too, aren't you?" Another girl meister with brown hair and a zoned out expression named Meme asked Tsugumi.
"Oh… I still can't do it like that…" Tsugumi said embarrassed making Sam feel more comfortable.
"The weapon and meister are both people. That is not just a 'thing'." Sid said.
"If we acknowledge each other's wills and match our breathing, then without even added force… he'll move!" Maka said as she held out her partner in her hand in front of her. Without her moving a muscle the scythe began to spine around the girl's hand. After a moment of him kicking up wind she grabbed the pole and swung the blade out behind her. Jumping to the air the scythe-boy started to spin again around the girl's body as if they were dancing.
The freshmen stared on in awe. But Danny felt a ping of uncertainty. 'What if Sam and I don't have compatible waves? What if I don't even have waves? I'm not even really human. What if I came all this way for nothing?'
As the two upperclassmen got to the end of their display the meister bowed to the new students as the podium fell to pieces behind her to the annoyance of the teacher. "This is a weapon and meister partnership. You will learn all about it little by little in your classes. Right now, just sense out your feelings. That's all for today. You are dismissed."
All the students began to file out but Sam noticed that Danny's movements were even more sluggish than usual. "What's the matter?" She asked him.
"What? There's nothing wrong." Danny said denying everything.
Sam crossed her arms and gave him a look. "We've been friends for eight years Danny, I know when something is wrong. Now speak up."
Danny sighed knowing that Sam was way too stubborn to let it go. "I guess I'm just worried that we might not turn as compatible as partners. What if I just end up holding you back?" Danny said and then closed his eyes waiting for the laugh.
He didn't have to wait long. "Danny, you really worry too much. It isn't like we would stop being friends if we won't partners. Let's not venture into the 'what will we do if we fail' until after we try." Sam said and then gave Danny a light chop on the head. "Besides, do you think you could get any other partner? You are pretty scrawny."
Danny chuckled softly. What was he worried about, he knew every word that Sam was going to say before she said it. If they couldn't become partners, then no one could. "I am suddenly reminded of those seminars at middle school about abusive relationships." Danny joked.
"Yah yah, now stop yapping and get me a sandwich, cause we both know how's wearing the pants here." Sam joked back as they walked to the door chuckling.
"Fenton! Come here for a second. I need to speak to you alone." Sid shouted to the boy as they were about to leave the room. Danny was by to Sam and walked back to the teacher. "I understand that you did not win in your regional tournament, but you're here now so we will just forget about it, you will be treated the same as all the other students." Sid said and Danny nodded a little embarrassed. "That said I am worried about you're safety as my student. The man who accepted you into the DWMA is a dangerous individual." Sid said before quickly adding. "He is not evil, he just has… issues. It is just the kind of man he is."
"What do you mean?" Danny said a bit confused.
"Stein is extremely obsessive… and he has shown an interest in you. And the things he is interested in he usually tries to… experiment on. As you have seen, his own body was no exception." Sid said. Danny winced slightly. "Don't worry. Lord Death has forbidden him from doing anything harmful to any innocent person, especially a student, and Stein has always respected Lord Death… but you are not to be alone with that man under any circumstances. Do I make myself clear?" Danny nodded cursing his luck. "Good, you're dismissed."
Sam had just step outside to find the two older freshmen boys standing with Anya, Meme, and Tsugumi and the girls did not look happy. Anya was standing in front of the other two with her chest puffed out with pride. "Are you looking for a fight!?" The weapon boy shouted at Anya. "Actions do the talking here at DWMA! Let's go!"
"Fascinating. All right, let's do this, why don't we?" Anya said still proud and proper.
"I won't go easy, just because you're a girl…" The weapon started but the blond princess cut him off.
"Spare me the embarrassing puffery." Anya said angering the weapon boy even further. "Harudori, was it? You're a weapon, right?" Anya asked the weapon girl behind her. "Please, transform yourself at once."
"But… I can't… transform properly yet." Tsugaru mumbled guiltily.
"If you can't transform, then go on home!" The boy weapon shouted at the little girl.
"Why don't you two take a hike!?" Sam shouted as she joined the group of girls. "Didn't you hear the teacher, a lot of us can't transform when we first get here and we will learn how. But I doubt that either of you two is going to grow a brain anytime soon."
The two boys looked a bit surprised by her sudden appearance but that just made them angrier. "Why don't you just say out of our way! This doesn't concern any of you!" The large meister boy shouted.
"We'll just fight both of them. This will be over before it even starts. Transform!" The weapon boy shouted. His body was covered in light just like with Soul Eater but when the larger boy caught it and the light faded the boy had turned into a dagger, only his head didn't transform with the rest of the body and the large meister was holding him by his head causing his face to stretch. "How 'bout that!? I can completely transform everything but my head!" The boy boasted.
Sam opened her mouth but then Danny appeared in the middle of the group. "Wow, let's all calm down." He said in a joking voice never losing his carefree smile.
"What the, get out of the way!" The large meister shouted. "We're fighting here!"
"Come on now, there's no need for any of this. We're all going to be classmates from own on, right? Why don't we try to get along?" Danny said turning to each group in turn trying to play the peace maker.
Sid was watching on with two undercover EAT class students. "Sid aren't you going to do something?" Clay asked. The blond haired weapon was not happy about the teacher's inaction.
"Stein said the boy was slow to get serious, but if the doc let him in then he should be fine. Stein is crazy, but he is a good judge of character. It's just the kind of man he is. And besides, fights like this happen all the time here. That just the kind of school this is." Sid said with a shrug.
"So that's the kid then?" Sid turned his head slightly to see the Deathscythe Spirit coming towards him. "I came to see what poor kid got the Mad Doctor's attention. The boy doesn't look like much."
"I guess we will just have to see." Sid said looking over to the group.
The bullies got fed up with Danny trying to talk the situation away and decided to take action while his back was turned to them. "I said get out of my way you loser!" The meister shouted bringing down the dagger across Danny's back as Danny was trying to calm down Sam. Danny had not been prepared and staggered forward into the girls. The cut was across his left shoulder and Danny fell down onto one knee as his right hand went up to grab the open wound.
"You bastards!" Sam shouted pushing past Danny but a hand grabbed her wrist. Looking back she saw Danny still smiling.
"It's ok, Sam. It wasn't deep." Danny said calmly despite having been cut.
"I don't get it." Anya said getting Danny's attention. "I heard that commoners were strong, powerful, cheerful, fun people who would never let others step all over them." She said with a note of disapproval. "You're not that way at all."
"I just don't want to fight." Danny said smiling at the runaway princess.
"No Danny, we can't let them do this, we have to fight back!" Sam shouted angrily at her friend.
"Why don't you all shut up!?" The weapon boy said as he was brought up towards Sam. Danny's eyes widened with horror as Sam staggered back. He hadn't cut her, but the front of Sam's top had been cut open and her pale skin and moderate chest was left out for the world to see.
"Sam!" Danny shouted the smile finally leaving his face as his best friend covered herself with her arms. The girl closed her eyes and gritted her teeth with the shame of being exposed by the brutes.
"Well well, who would have guessed there was such a hot body under those restricting clothes?" The older meister said grinning like a wild animal. "Maybe I should take you as my partner. What do you say you little bitc…" He never finished the word.
Everyone in the hall went slack jawed as Danny delivered a punch into the stomach of the other meister sending him flying eight feet back and landing on his back with a loud thud. "Let me make one thing clear." Danny said as he straightened himself. "You can do whatever you want to me… but…" Bright green rage flowed into his eyes. "No one hurts my friends!"
Sam, as well as Sid and Spirit, saw the green orb of Danny's soul rapidly expand until it filled the entire width of the hall. His hair was rippling slightly and his loose clothes flapped about in the wind of his soul. Even the nearby doors shook slightly from its pressure. The bloody cut on Danny's back glowed a soft green and began to close in front of everyone's eyes until it was nothing but a light scar.
"A healing soul wavelength?" Spirit said in shock.
"Sam, are you alright?" Danny asked looking slightly away from his friend as to not stare at her exposed body.
Sam sighed. "I would be better if you had just done that sooner. Seriously Danny it takes too much to get you mad these days."
"Sorry." He whispered as he looked at the bullies who were starting to get up. "Sam… lets show them what we can do."
Sam's eyes widened. "But Danny, I can't transform into a…" She started but she stopped when saw Danny's bright green eyes. She sighed. "Fine, I'll do it, you lovable idiot."
Closing her eyes she took a deep breath. 'Danny, you really are amazing. You have always been there for me, helping me and protecting me, even when we were just little kids. It was only because of you that I had the courage to be myself.' Sam thought as she searched herself for what she needed. A dark purple orb appeared in her mind's eye. 'I won't let you fight alone, not anymore!'
Sam's body glowed a dark purple and soon her body disappeared. The light flew though the air and Danny grabbed it in his hand. It extended into a long black pole and then at the top of one end there was a flat square metal plate on one side at a ninety degree angle with the pole. The moment she touched Danny's hand Danny felt different. He easily spun Sam around and grabbed her just below the metal head in his clean left hand, dropping into a stance.
"What the!" The dagger boy laughed. "Is that a till? That's not a weapon that's a gardening tool!"
"Why don't you just get over here so we can give you your beating and move on with the day?" Sam's voice came from the till.
"Don't worry, we'll try to hold back." Danny said the grin back on his face, only it seemed colder than before, more confident than friendly. "Wouldn't want to kill whatever brain cells you have." The two larger boys growled with anger and the meister ran at Danny swinging his weapon around rapidly.
Danny had never felt anything like it. His hands were moving of their own accord as he defected all the attacks. 'It's like Sam knows where to go and is just telling me what I need to do.' Danny thought as he easily pushed the large bully back with a hit from the bottom of Sam's pole.
"You punk!" The meister shouted as he moved towards Danny again swing the dagger boy wide.
"Danny, now!" Sam shouted. Danny lifted up the till with his left and jabbed quickly hitting the face in the center of the dagger hard with Sam's flat metal plate. The dagger was knocked out of the meister's hand and sent flying back.
Then Danny dropped and spun left letting Sam slide between his fingers as he spun until she hooked around the larger meister's legs. Pulling Sam back he easily toppled the giant who flew into the air in such a way that his back ended up turned to Danny with his feet over his head. Danny bloodied right hand shown green and he struck the giant in the back, shooting him away again and causing him to land hard on his stomach.
"What the hell?" Spirit said staring at the boy who stood proud with his weapon in hand. "Damn that Mad Scientist."
"He was not kidding when he said it took a lot to get the boy going. But the power once he started is just unreal." Sid nodded.
The meister started to push himself back to his feet and he grabbed the dagger. "You… how dare you." He growled. "I'm bigger than you. I'm supposed to win!"
"Dream on." Sam's voice said. "No one can beat Danny once he gets serious."
"Sam… let's show them what we can really do." Danny said his right hand coming up and grabbing the bottom of Sam's pole from behind his back. They could both feel it, each other's breathing as their minds cleared.
'Sam… everything I am today is because of you. I've always depended on you for everything and you always helped me to decide what was right and what I needed to do. I would have never become a ghost if it wasn't for you. I would never have become a hero if it wasn't for you. Even now I can feel you helping me, guiding my hand.' Danny thought as he gathered his strength. 'I will give you all I have. I will always be the person you can depend on!'
'Danny… you have always supported me. Even now it's your power that is flowing though me. It's simply incredible. You have always fought to protect me and help me be myself.' Sam thought as she basked in Danny's strength. 'But I will not just be a burden for you. I will become your weapon. It's my turn to support you!'
"No fucking way!" Spirit said wide eyed. He didn't even need to use soul perception to tell the change in the two's souls anymore, he could see it with his naked eye. All the students backed up as Danny's body glowed green and the till that was Sam glowed purple.
"Is this the legendary strength of the commoners I had heard about?" Anya said in amazement. The two auras swirled together into a deep black which covered them both. The boy pulled his weapon partner up in the air above him with his right hand and the black aura thread itself around the head of the till. It grew into a giant black Phantom emblem that gleamed green and purple around the edges.
"GHOST HUNTER!" Danny and Sam's voices ran through the hall even though neither of them had said anything. The attack smashed into the ground in front of their opponents and sent the meister and his dagger weapon flying on last time. They hit the far wall and were completely battered by the debris that came from the leveled hallway floor.
The aura that had been surrounding the younger pair vanished. A ten foot wide trail of destruction starting at were the attack hit the ground extended out in a straight line for twenty feet. "Oh crap, we didn't kill them did we?" Danny said in a panic.
"What the heck did we even do?" Sam voice asked.
"Sid…" Spirit said at his body was covered in sweat.
"Yes, Spirit…" Sid said a little slack jawed himself.
"Did they just perform a Soul Resonance without realizing it?" The Deathscythe asked the teacher.
"It is what it is…" The teacher said as the students cheered for the victors. Even some of the upperclassmen had wondered out into the halls after sensing the boy's soul. Sam transformed back and Danny quickly gave her is jacket before searching for her suitcase for her. "Clay… could you get Ms. Medusa to look at the injured?"
"On it teach." Clay said before run off down the hall.
"So we're not going to tell Stein about this are we?" Spirit said looking at the new students chatting friendly in the wake of the fight.
"No, I think it would be smarter if we didn't. After all, there is no telling what that madman would do."
"My thoughts exactly." Spirit said nodding.
"I didn't say anything." Sid said gulping. They turned their heads to see Doctor Stein with a small instrument in his hand.
"I got some good readings from the fight, but none of them excide my per-programmed expectations." Stein said calmly reaching up to twist his head screw. He then looked to the shocked faces of the of two DWMA members. "You shouldn't be so surprised. Anyone with even moderate soul perception could feel their soul waves flaring up from outside the school boundaries." He said with a smile. Putting the device away he started to walked away from the group of children. "I was supposed to report to Lord Death today, I shouldn't keep him waiting."
The entrance to Lord Death's room or the Death Room was a long path over arched by model guillotines that looked as if they would come down on you at any moment. On either side of the stretch is a desert waste land that extends past vision even though the space was definitely inside the Academy.
But even with the extreme set pieces there, no student who had actually meet Lord Death was afraid while they entered. Stein was even less afraid as he strolled underneath the blades and looked at the grave markers that littered the field.
As he came up towards the small circular platform that acted as the actual meeting area well Death called on visits, Stein saw the Lord himself sitting down at a small table drinking tea with another individual. Death looked rather goofy with the black cloak that covered his body and the more childishly designed white mask that he started to wear after he opened up a school. Death lifted up the small tea cups with his comically large white gloved hands and took a sip. Stein could hear his goofy chuckles as he approached. It was all the same Lord Death as usual.
But the visitor was someone new to him. The man, if he could be called that, had a purple travels coat on. From what Stein could see of him he didn't have any legs, but instead had a wispy tail where they should have been. In the middle of his chests was a grandfather clock and his arms were covered his dozens of different kinds of watches. As he glanced at Stein the Mad Doctor got a like at his face. He had blood red eyes with a scar running down through one of them. He had a curious smile plastered on his face, as if he had a joke that only he understood and was in no way inclined to share.
Stein instantly realized this was no ordinary visitor. His soul was like Lord Deaths, to powerful for the doctor to even comprehend. This person sitting before him sipping tea was not a living being, but a fact of reality, eternal and indisputable.
"Well my old friend it looks like it is time for me to go." The visitor said flouting up and lifting a staff with a clock on the end of it.
"It was so nice of you to come. You really shouldn't be such a stranger." Lord Death said happily bouncing around as he got up.
"Maybe I will, but then again, only time will tell." The being said mysteriously as he swung his staff and disappeared.
"Lord Death, if might be so bold to ask, who was that?" Stein said as he sat down in the spot that was left empty by the guest and pouring himself a cup of coffee.
"Oh, that was just my old friend Clockwork. He came to tell me that all our effort are going to fail and that the Kishin will be revived." Death said sitting back down. "Nothing to worry about."
Stein looked over at his leader. Clockwork was a name that was familiar to him. Just like Death was once known as Madness through Order, Clockwork was another one of the Eight Powerful Warriors, Madness through Fate. "That sounds like something we really should be worried about."
"Well it is something that was going to happen eventually. The most we can do is keep preparing and have faith in the defenses that we have set down." Lord Death said with a shrug. The Death clapped his hands together. "Speaking of which, how are things?" Stein sighed knowing that he wasn't going to get any more information from Lord Death so he started to give his report.