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"You two were so cool!" Tsugaru said excitedly to Sam.
"Oh… um thanks." Sam said looking away from the group of girls as they all sat in front of the school waiting to be lead to the dorms. All students were supposed to room with their partners. Sam and Danny had been the only opposite gender partners in the incoming group of students, so they were going to the Co-ed Dorm but all the other boy had already been taken away. So it was only the two of them with the three girls from before; Tsugaru, Meme, and Anya. Both Meme and Anya made their desire to become Tsugaru's partner known after the fight.
"Do you think you could give me some pointers? Pretty please?" Tsugaru said flapping her hands in front of her.
"I would, but that was the first time I had ever managed to fully transform myself." Sam admitted, a little freaked out by the girl's forwardness. "I can't even remember what I did."
"You forgot too?" Meme said a dazed look about her. The brunette meister reached up a hand and scratched her head. "I can't seem to remember what happened either."
"Wait… you really forgot?" Danny said a bit surprised.
Meme looked at him a bit confused. "Was it something important?"
Danny looked at little unsure but then just shook his head and smiled. "No, not really."
"Commoners are as amazing as I always heard they were." Anya said as she clasped her hands in front of her.
"Wait, what did you just say?" Sam said the sound of an upcoming argument clear in her voice.
Danny was preparing to intercept when they were disrupted by another student. "Excuse me, but you are the new freshmen, correct?"
A girl in a tame sister nun like uniform with twin black braids came up to them. She had on rather plan glasses and stood in front of the group with a pleasant enough smile. Sam had to swallow down on her horror of the anti-feminist as the group nodded that they were indeed the new students.
"Welcome to the DWMA, I'm going to be taking you all to the girls' dormitory and then a pair from the coed dorm will come to pick those of you that will be staying there since they are in the same direction." The girl said before turning and starting to walk. "Please follow me."
As they walked, Tsugaru and Meme both were very open towards Sam, even though they seem more embarrassed about talking with Danny, since they didn't have that much experience with boys. Sam was outside of her comfort zone since the only female friends she had ever had were other people in her protest groups, who were all college students, and Jazz. For the most part, she had always only been with Danny and Tucker.
They had been walking for about five minutes when someone finally asked a question. "Ms. Upperclassmen…" Tsugaru started.
"My name is Eternal Feather." The girl said calmly. The over the top name was odd for the rather plan girl.
"Um… Ms. Eternal Feather, how much further is it?" Tsugaru asked.
"It is just a little further on the opposite side of the outdoor market." Eternal Feather said. Anya seemed to perk up at the words 'outdoor market'.
"Tsugaru, where are we going again?" Meme asked.
"What, we're going to the girls' dorm, silly." Tsugaru said to her forgetful friend.
"Oh right, I guess I forgot." Meme said chuckling.
"You're beyond forgetful." Tsugaru giggled as they walked out of the alley into the outdoor market.
Anya was practically glowing with excitement as she looked at all the booths and arrangements of goods in the street. Sam had a more controlled look of approval on her face. "Private and local dealers with their own lives and stories. It's so much better than the heartless industry that consumes most of today's markets." Sam said as she looked from shop to shop as they walked passed.
The other girls looked confused at what she was saying. "Sorry, Sam's a bit of an activist." Danny said explaining a bit of the girl's actions and way of thinking. "You know; fight the power, down with big industry, work to help your fellow man, and protect the environment." Danny said rubbing the back of his neck. "She's a bit of an extremist though."
Sam threw him a scowl. "No, you just aren't taking it seriously enough. This world has problems and it is up to the people of the world to solve them." Sam said seriously.
The rest of the walk through the market street was spent with the girls listening in growing revulsion to Sam more and more vivid descriptions of the world's problems. It ended up in the way most of Sam's rants end, with everyone desiring to have as little to do with those things as possible, their by making sure that no one helped her in the end.
Danny was so used to it that he didn't even register most of what she said. He knew that Sam would drag him along for some form of volunteer work or other. And every time she did something bad would happen to him. As far as Danny cared it was just who the world worked.
"Oh I almost forgot, I was supposed to give you all your first weeks allowance." Eternal Feather said hoping to change the subject off of the outrageous living conditions of chickens. She pulled out five envelopes of money. "Now you can spend it any way you like, but you will need to pay for your own meals and daily expenses."
"Even taking out meals and whatnot, this is far more than the allowance I got at home." Tsugaru said looking into the envelope.
"You cannot get an advance on your allowance, so starting tomorrow, if you don't have anything to eat, you'll have to get a job to earn more money, so keep that in mind." Eternal Feather said.
"A job? You mean part-time work?" Anya said. Danny was surprised to hear the excitement in her voice. What kind of kid wanted to get a job? Danny himself had done a couple of odd jobs and Sam had dragged him to volunteer work, so he was a little more worry.
"I'm still at a middle-school age, so I've never had a job before." Tsugaru said not noticing her friend's eagerness.
"Same here." Meme said smiling.
"What? How old are you?" Tsugaru asked.
"I'm 14." Meme said.
"Oh, we're the same!" Tsugaru said excitedly. But then looked down at Meme's well developed chest and frowned. "And yet… different."
Sam chuckled. "Danny and I are 14 too." Sam said with a shrug.
"I'm also 14." Anya muttered.
"The DWMA often has varied ages, even in the same classes." Eternal Feather said.
"Wow, it's nice that we are all the same age!" Tsugaru said cheerfully. Anya and Meme nodded happily. Danny and Sam were not so sure, their group had never really opened up to outsiders. It was the nature of those with secrets, they avoided anyone discovering at all costs.
"We're here." Eternal Feather said as they stopped at the front gate of a large mansion. "This is the girls dormitory."
"Amazing! Meme, Anya, isn't it nice?" Tsugaru asked in her cheery voice.
"I was expecting a more modest, guesthouse-like place." Anya said looking around the garden at the opening path.
"Well it does have to house almost all the girls that go to school, so it makes sense that it's big." Sam reasoned.
"That's right." Eternal Feather nodded at turned to Sam and Danny. "You two can either wait out here for the person who will be taking you to the coed dorm or you can come inside and wait at the stairs."
Danny looked to Sam and as usually she decided without even asking him. "We might as well take a look inside." Sam said with a shrug. Danny didn't mind that she didn't ask for his opinion, it wasn't like it was an important decision anyways and it happened pretty often.
"Ok." Eternal Feather said before turning back to the front door of the girls' dorm. But her hand paused right over the handle. "Oh one more thing I'd like you to remember…" She said in a voice so soft it was hardly more than a whisper. "Watch out for the girls' dorm witch."
"Huh? Witch?" Tsugaru asked with a sharp intake of breath. She looked around as if she expected to see a wrinkly old hag reaching out at her.
"All right, welcome to the DWMA's girls' dorm!" Eternal Feather said cheerfully. Before opening up the door and walking in.
"There's no way the DWMA has a witch." Anya scoffed as she entered the building.
"They'd get along like cats and dogs with each other." Meme agreed.
"I'm sure if there is a witch, then she is probably a good person." Danny said walking in next.
"Danny's right, if there is a known witch here than the DWMA thinks that she is safe." Sam agreed. Tsugaru still didn't seem sure. She was the last to follow the others into the dorm.
The entrance hall was a bit old fashioned with the wooden staircase and old picture frames of old curtains. But it seemed friendly enough. Right next to the stairs was a green coach with a desk in front of it and sitting there was a little girl, probably only nine or ten years old wearing a hooded cape with little animal ears on it. The group could just see a bit of blond hair so light that it appeared white sticking out from under her hood. She was shuffling around a large pile of card on the desk in front of her.
"This is Kana Altair." Eternal Feather said introducing the girl to the group. The little girl looked up and she had rose-colored eyes and an indifferent expression that seemed a little cute to the new comers. "She's good at telling fortunes."
"Oh Tarot Cards, cool." Sam said looking down at the table.
"I will read your fortune for today." Kana looked at Sam and pulled up a card. The card showed a man sitting on a chariot that was being pulled by black and white sphinxes. 'The Chariot' was written on the bottom of the card but it took a second longer to read since the girl had drawn it upside down.
"So conflict is in my future. Like I am going to get into a fight." Sam said. Kana nodded with a slight smile.
Then she looked to Tsugaru, she shuffled the cards about a little and pulled another one. "Here it is." Kana said. The card had a depiction of a burning building with people jumping out of the higher floors. This one was labeled 'The Tower'. "Woe. Watch yourself, newbie."
"Wait, j...j...just a bit more detail?" Tsugaru begged. Danny had to stop himself from chuckling as Tsugaru began to panic. Though Danny did take the fortunes seriously, he had learned from Clockwork, that though the timeline isn't written in stone, that doesn't mean you can't see or read into likely futures.
Kana looked over to Danny and pulled a third card. It had a picture of a wheel with different symbols on it and a sphinx standing on top of it. And surrounded by five gold shapes; a snake, a dove, an angel, a winged cow and a winged lion. Below the picture were the words 'Wheel of Fortune'. The card was upside down. "Misfortune." Kana said simply as Sam started to laugh.
Danny just gave a shrug. "Sounds about right."
"You can't honestly believe that a child can divine anything using tarot cards?" Anya scoffed.
Kana glared at Anya and lifted up a card. "Fool." It was 'The Fool' card, only instead of the official display it had a picture that showed one plus one equaling three. Kana was holding it upside down.
"What?" Anya said angrily.
"Pig." Kana said holding up a card with a picture of a pig on it. Sam began to laugh again.
"The tarot doesn't even have that card!" Anya shouted in indignation.
"Go home." Kana said holding up a card with a house on it.
"What is with this girl!? She may be small, but she's insolent!" Anya shouted starting to move towards the little girl but Meme and Eternal Feather held her back.
But the scene ended when the front door slammed open and a shout echoed though the hall. "Yahoo!"
"Oh please no." Sam said as she shielded her eyes from the light of the doorway.
But sure enough, standing in the doorway was Black Star standing in a pose with a figure pointed towards the sky. "You can all rejoice now, because I, Black Star, have arrived!"
"The tarot cards are never wrong." Kana said seriously as Black Star approached.
Black Star went and put an arm around Danny's neck and smiled broadly. "So we meet again huh. I hear you already won your first fight here at school. I'm glad to see that I have been such a good influence on you." Black Star said happily. "You maybe scrawny but I'm going to make a fighter out of you. Consider yourself the new apprentice of the Great Black Star!" Danny looked horrified.
CLANG. Sam had turned one of her hands into a metal slab again and hit Black Star on the head. "What the heck are you talking about you hipped up little kid!" Sam shouted at the ninja.
"Little kid?" Black Star said angrily. "I think you need to get your eyes checked, I'm the biggest man in this room… no in this whole school!"
"I think you need to get your head checked because it only comes up to my shins." Sam mocked back. The two of them started to argue some more as the other girls looked on in horror.
"I'm sorry we are so late, Eternal Feather." The whole group jumped as they noticed Tsubaki standing next to them. "Black Star insisted on being the one to pick up the new students and then he immediately got into a fight before we left. I'm sorry." She bowed.
"Oh, it's ok, Miss Tsubaki." Eternal Feather flushed and bowed to the taller girl.
"It's alright, we haven't been here that long anyways." Danny said smiling and returning the bow a little awkwardly.
Tsubaki smiled. "Thanks, Black Star was really excited when he heard that you and Sam won your first fight here. He wanted to see you two again. Believe it or not, Black Star already thinks of you as friends."
"Well that's nice I guess." Danny said looking at him and Sam mocking each other. "I don't think Sam feels the same though."
"Almost no one does at first. But he starts to grow on people once they get used to the way he talks." Tsubaki chuckled. "He's may seem a little full of himself, but he really is selfless once you get to know him." She then started to walk towards her partner as Danny did the same. "Black Star, we really should be getting back to the dorms don't you think?"
"Oh, right." Black Star said with a wide grin. "Just follow me, I'll show you noobs the ropes so you don't get into too much trouble. So come on." Black Star said before running out the door. Sam groaned as she lifted up her suitcase and followed the energy ball.
"Alright, the first thing you need to know about the academy is that is divided into two main groups of students." Black Star said as they walked down the street. "And they are the 'NOT' students and the 'EAT' students. The words are supposed to stand for something but I don't really remember what, and it isn't really important anyways. All you need to know is that 'EAT' class students, like me and Tsubaki, are the ones that have prove that they can handle themselves and are allowed to go on missions. So if you're going to pick a fight, make sure it is with a 'EAT' class student, otherwise it won't mean anything."
"Aren't you supposed to say that we shouldn't fight people that out class us?" Danny said a bit confused. He didn't think that he was going to pick a fight with anyone.
"NO!" Black Star shouted causing some of the people on the street to jump. "You can't think like that. Listen, the teachers and staff are the ones that decide whether or not you join the 'EAT' class. So even if your grades are lousy you can still get in if you have a good reputation." Black Star said seriously.
"Everything you do is considered when they are thinking about letting you in; from how well you do in class and who you fight with, all the way down to your friends and what you spend your money and free time on." Tsubaki explained.
"So if they see that you spend a lot of time training then you are more likely to be picked." Sam asked.
Black Star nodded. "But more than that is who you are as a person and your morals. Everyone in the academy wants to be in the 'EAT' classes, but only around one in ten people get in. Those people who manage to graduate from them are considered the future heroes of peace." Black Star said. "If you are some kind of jerk that would pick on the weak or some wimp who doesn't have what it takes to stand up for what you believe in, then you won't get picked."
"Makes sense I guess." Danny said as they walked. "The school promotes fighting to improve yourself, but they are against bullying."
"Something like that." Tsubaki chuckled. "We're here."
Danny and Sam looked around and found that the coed dorm was drastically different than the girls' dorm. It was more modern and looked like a large apartment complex rather than a fancy mansion.
"Well this is different." Sam said crossing her arms. "A good different, but still different."
"Well, the coed dorm is newer than the others. It was only around fifty years ago that they decided that it was important for all partners to live together to improve their souls ability to work together. So the building is newer." Tsubaki said.
Danny and Sam followed Black Star towards an elevator in the side of the building when they heard someone shout. "You idiot!" accompanied by the sound of shattering glass.
Looking around they spotted Soul from the orientation demonstration flying out of a third story window. "Looks like Soul forgot that it was his turn to prepare dinner again!" Black Star laughed.
"Is he going to be ok?" Danny asked.
"He'll be fine. This happens at least once a week." Black Star shrugged. They got into the elevator and went up to the fourth floor. Standing in front of one of the doors Tsubaki pulled out a key.
The door opened up into a small kitchen like area with a dining room table to the right. In the back were three doors; presumable two bedrooms and a bathroom. "Unlike the boys' and girls' dorms the coed dorm doesn't have floor bathroom and kitchen areas." Tsubaki explained. "Each pair gets their own kitchen and bathroom, but you will need to buy kitchenware yourselves."
Danny and Sam stepped in and looked around. The room was more or less empty, but Danny new that the window areas were probably going to be stuffed with plants before long. Sam had been eyeing some stands at the outdoor market that had different plants on display.
"We'll be just down the hall, so if you need anything just come to Black Star!" Black Star said as he walked away laughing. Tsubaki sighed and gave a little bow before chasing after him.
"That guy is infuriating." Sam grumbled as she shut the door.
"Come on Sam, he's nice enough." Danny said defending the other boy.
"Yah yah, I'm going to sleep now." Sam said pulling her suitcase with her to the room on the left. "I'm going to go out tomorrow and look for something for us to do to kill the boredom. It sound like we should try getting a part-time job if we want to get into the 'EAT' class." Sam looked back at Danny. "If we're going to be here might as well make the most of it. Night."
"Good night." Danny said as she closed the door to her room. Danny sighed and dragged his suitcase with him to the opposite room. It had a bed in one corner and a right desk and bookcase in the other and there was just enough room to walk around. The first thing Danny did was open up his suitcase and pull out a poster of the night sky which he hung on his wall above his bed. Then he settled down on his new bed and closed his eyes. He was asleep before he knew it.
"Couldn't you have waited like three days before going and turning our new place into a virtual green house?" Danny asked Sam as they got out of line for lunch at the school cafeteria. Even though it was the weekend most of the students were still at there to eat. His arms ached from the six trips to and from the outdoor market carrying the large plants that Sam had bought in order to fill the room.
"It was good exercise and you need to put on a little more muscle." Sam said poking her partner's arm. "Don't forget, your pretty weak for a meister."
"Urg… watch the arms." Danny grumbled rubbing his sore arms. Looking around the cafeteria Danny spotted Tsugaru, Meme and Anya. "Hey girls." He said as he moved to sit at the table with them.
They looked at him with a bit of miserly of their face. At first Danny wondered what was wrong but then he notice that they were all sharing a single bowl of noodles. "Is… that all you have to eat?" He asked not wanting to sound to insulting. They nodded.
"How did you run out of money so fast?" Sam asked a bit confused. If only one or two of them had messed up it would be understandable, even expected since they were too young to know how to manage their own affairs, but all three by the middle of the first day.
They all just looked down at the small bowls in front of them. Danny sighed and pulled out enough money to buy them all lunch. "Here, get yourself something and then we can talk about whatever happened."
Twenty minutes later they had all eat something and the three girls explained why they were all out of money. Anya had immediately gone out and spent all her money after waking up in the morning and Meme had placed hers somewhere and then forgotten about it do to her bad memory.
The one that got under Sam's skin was Tsugumi's story. "Let me get this straight, the girls' dormitory's director attacked you in your sleep and she was stopped by an upperclassman who then demanded your week's allowance that you need for food and stuff as payment?" Sam summarized.
"Well… I wouldn't say demanded." Tsugumi said weakly.
"That jerk. How is that any different than someone beating you up and stealing your lunch money at a normal school?" Sam said angrily. "This is supposed to be a school for the future heroes of the world. A hero would have saved you out of the goodness of their heart, not for some kind of monetary gain." Sam spat.
"Calm down Sam, I sure she must have had her reasons. Maybe she just wanted to show Tsugumi that she needs to be more self reliant or something. You know the expression, 'teach a man to fish' and all that." Danny said trying to stop his weapon partner from making a scene.
"That has nothing to do with this situation and you know it!" Sam snapped at Danny.
"Well yelling about it isn't going to get us anywhere." Danny said shielding himself with his hands.
"I guess we are going to have to find a way to get us through until next week's allowance." Tsugumi said.
"Here try this." Sam said pulling out a catalogue of job requests for students. She had already decided what she was going to drag Danny to do for that day.
"A part-time job?" Meme said flatly.
"We have no choice." Tsugumi said with a nodded.
"You're right." Meme nodded.
"They'll have to pay by the day, so…" Tsugumi said as they leaned over the catalogue.
"A part-time job…" Anya murmured with a dazed look in her eyes.
"Anya?" Tsugumi said shocking the girl out of her day dreaming. "Is there anything you'd like?"
Anya flushed. "Any labor is out of the question for me." She said in a high and mighty manner that set off a blood vessel in Sam's head. But her true feeling shone through a moment later. "But since you insist, Tsugumi, I will just accompany you." Her flushed darkened as she quickly added. "I-I don't have any interest in cute uniforms, you understand…"
"Oh, uniforms?" Tsugumi said happily. This princess was completely transparent.
"How about this one?" Meme said pointing to a particular column. "Café waitressing. Uniforms provided, first-timers welcome."
"'This is a popular job for girls,' it says." Tsugumi read excitedly.
It seemed that the girls were in agreement but they looked over to Danny and Sam who had been watching with mild amusement. "Do you want to come with us?" Anya asked hopefully.
Sam bit her lip. "Sorry, uniforms are really not my style. Besides we've already got a construction job repair roads."
"Construction? But you're a girl!" Tsugumi said in surprised.
"What is that supposed to mean!? Are you implying I can't do it?" Sam snapped scaring the other girl.
"Calm down there Sam, she didn't mean anything by it." Danny said getting in the way before things could turn into a rant. "I'm sure she's just surprised that you would want such a job. She wasn't doubting that you could do it."
"We've done this kind of job before while volunteering back home." Sam said sharply.
"Wait, why are you two working though? Are you running out of money as well?" Anya asked.
"No we've both set aside the amount of money we will need for the weeks food and basic supplies." Danny said waving the comment off.
"The job is meant to kill time, exercise, and do some good for the community." Sam said with a shrug. "We're pretty good at managing our own affairs."
"What? But how come? You only as old as we are, and we messed up." Meme asked surprised.
"I always tried to be independent of my parents as much as possible. They never approved of the things I like, what I eat, who I hung out with. So learning to manage things for myself was just a natural step in my rebellion." Sam said admitting she was a rebellious teen.
"My parents were not really reliable when it came to things like managing money and planning ahead." Danny said simply. "Don't get me wrong they were good… alright they weren't bad parents like Sam's. But they were just too wrapped up in their work to think about things like dinner or paying the electric bills. So my sister and I took over that job back home."
The girls looked impressed at Danny. "You said they were wrapped up in their work. What did they do?" Anya asked bright eyed.
Danny hesitated and shot a look at Sam. "I… I'd rather not talk about it." He finally said.
The girls' eyes widened. 'Was he from a crime family?' They all thought imagining Danny robbing a bank with a machine gun.
"Just tell them Danny." Sam said rolling her eyes. "Don't be such a pansy."
"But it's embarrassing." Danny whimpered and Sam gave him the look that said, 'you tell them or I will'. Danny sighed in defeat. "My parents are ghost hunters."
This confession was met with mixed reactions. Tsugumi's eyes widened and she started to shake as if afraid. Meme only looked confused as if she could decide if she was remembering what was said correctly. Anya's reaction was… unique. "Wow, the jobs of commoners are amazing."
Sam busted out laughing. "Common is not something people usually call the Fentons." She leaned back in her seat. "They are usually called freaks and weirdoes… but sometime people call them what they really are… heroes." Danny gave a soft smile thinking about those rare moments when people actually showed appreciation for him parents and their work. "Come on Danny, we need to go to work." Sam said grabbing his shirt and dragging him out of his chair to leave the others behind.
"I didn't think we would run into something like this outside of Amity Park." Danny said as the dump truck pulled away with all the shattered pieces of the road that they were supposed to be repairing. Turning back around he looked at the large scar that had been cut into the middle of the road as if a giant had attacked it with a butcher knife. There were a few smaller round holes around it.
"I guess the fights in Death City get pretty intense." Sam said. They only found out after they got there, that they were the only ones on the job. For some reason people didn't want to do it, not even the usual government workers. The road had been in disrepair for weeks. "I can't believe that they just leave it like this though. I mean, it is in the driveway of the emergency hospital."
Danny shivered at the thought. He looked over and saw the second creepiest hospital he had ever seen right next to the slashes in the ground. The area was covered in dead willows and the hospital was stitched together, with literal stitches. Danny felt like it should be reminding him of something but every time he felt like he was getting close to remembering Sam's shouts pulled him back to reality. "Danny hurry it up, we need to put sand into the holes before we can repave them!"
After another four hours of work they filled up all the holes and where starting to put on the fresh coat of tar when a voice distracted them. "You two sure are fast workers." They turned their heads to the hospital and saw a man leaning over the fence. It didn't take them long to recognize him. His gray stitched together skin and white lab coat would make him easy to pick out of a line up and the screw in his head was even harder to forget or over look. "Thanks for all your hard work. Those holes have been in my driveway for months." Doctor Stein said as he reached up and grabbed the screw on the side of his head and gave it a twist.
"This… this is your hospital!" Danny said in a panic backing away from the gate.
The Mad Doctor began to laugh. "Based on your reaction I would venture a guess and say you have been warned about my impulses." He said gripping the gate a little too tightly and giving a menacing grin. But then the expression disappeared and he just continued a friendly laugh. "Don't worry. I'm not about to dissect you. Your soul's wavelength is very similar to my old partner's. We were assigned to be partners together because her wavelength had a calming effect on me and let me stay in control of my actions. You don't have anything to worry about." He then threw himself over the fence and walked over. "You sure are good at these kinds of repairs." Stein said inspecting their handy work.
"Thanks." Sam said regaining her confidence. "We've done this kind of thing before back home as volunteer work."
Stein nodded. "The Amity Park ghost attacks would cause some significant damage wouldn't they?" It wasn't really a question. Then Stein straightened up. "After a soul's host body is destroyed the soul is left exposed to the elements of the outside world. It is rare but sometimes those elements mutate the soul before it can pass on by providing it with a recurring cycle that allows the soul to act on its surroundings and reproduce a body for it to inhabit. This is the basic theory of how ghosts come into existence. This body is more directly influenced by the soul which is what gives the ghosts their abilities. But without a stable mind and body these souls are easily provoked and are quite often violent. Luckily the only place that will reliably expose a soul to these patterns is the Ghost Zone."
Danny nodded, he had heard something about that from his mom and dad. But Stein wasn't done. "I wonder what would happen if those patterns and signals acted upon a living soul for an extended period of time? Would that soul also mutate, and if so what kind of effect would it have on the body and mind of the individual? Would the more stable physical body and living mind focus the power and stabilize the mutated soul?" Danny and Sam looked shocked at what it seemed Stein was implying. "You have an unusual soul do to your exposure to your parents' lab. I look forward to seeing how you develop as a meister." Stein said pulling out a cigarette and light it with a soul wave. "That's the whole reason I brought you into the academy in the first place. So I could watch you grow."
Stein looked over at the scared children. "Don't worry, no one is going to discriminate against you for being different. I can imagine that you feared some form of government finding out about you and trying to attack you for it, but you don't have to worry. As a student of the DWMA, to attack you would be to declare war against Lord Death himself. No government in the world would be willing to do something like that."
"Um… thanks." Danny said confused as the Mad Doctor took a long puff from his cigarette before turning his back to the kids and walking back towards his hospital. "Well he was… nice." Danny said causing Sam to start laughing before telling him to get back to work.