I own nothing, not the characters, the space where this story exists, or even the eyes that you are using to read it. This is for entertainment proposes only, no money involved.
"Remember that the school wide academic tests are tomorrow, so I hope you've been studying." Nygus said as she wrapped up her class. Yuri gave a long yawn that earned him a glare from the teacher. But he closed his mouth when he got a elbow from his weapon partner, Flynn.
The two of them transfered into the 'EAT' class three day's after the others. Yuri Lowe was a Meister, seventeen years old from a bad neighborhood with long black hair that ran half way down his back and dark eyes. He was a lone wolf kind of guy and pretty much kept to himself, other than his partner, Flynn Scifo and the monster dog, Repede who he had taken a liking to immediately. Yuri had earned himself a name around the academy for being a rebel and taking things into his own hands. The reason he started the 'EAT' class later than the others was because he had assaulted a teacher after school hours and was suspended.
When asked why he did it, Yuri said. "The creep touched one of the eight year old students." And when they asked why he didn't just report it he responded with. "Pencil pushers don't solve problems. The teachers here are the government. They would just wage their fingers at him and he would be back out the next day. He won't forget that cut on his forehead as quickly."
Flynn on the other hand was the complete opposite of his partner. He was a weapon, a hand ax, also seventeen but from a upper-class family, he had short blond hair, blue eyes, and was very open and out going with everyone, except for Repede who he was slightly afraid of. Flynn had filed a complaint about the teach which had resulted in a slight waging of fingers and nothing being done. He had tried to talk is partner into having faith in the system set down by his fellow man, but Yuri liked his way better.
Widely considered to be the pretty boys of the academy, most of the girls had a crush on at least one of them.
Nygus coughed into her hand to regain attention before continuing to speak. "Alright class, that is all. I well see you tomorrow."
Danny groaned along with Kim as they exited the room. "I hate tests." Kim complained.
"My scores were once bad enough to bring about the end of the world." Danny said as if it was a joke though Sam and Kim knew better. Just like Danny never told Sam that Kim was a witch, Kim never told Jackie that Danny was part ghost. Though unlike Sam, Jackie hasn't guessed the truth.
"You're just over reacting." Jackie said rolling her eyes. "Maybe if you ever studied you'd do better."
"Straight laced chick." Kim mumbled causing Jackie to give her a glare.
"Come on you two. We were going to go and study with Tsugami, Anya, and Meme at DeathBucks, remember?" Sam said before pausing. "Want to come along, Estelle, Tsubaki?"
"I would but..." Tsubaki said looking to her meister.
Black Star was just laughing. "People as big as we are don't need to study to ace tests. Come on Tsubaki, lets go!" Black Star shouted and ran off. Tsubaki dipped her head as if to apologize before running off after her partner.
"Well that's Black Star for you." Sam said as the ninja ran off.
"Ten bucks says that he just doesn't want other people to see him study." Danny said before looking back to Estelle. "What about you? Want to come?"
"I... I don't know." Estelle said throwing a worried glance at Repede.
"Come on, Repede can come too. He has to study also." Kim said grinning. Jackie looked a little uncomfortable, but didn't say anything.
"Well... sure." Estelle said nodding.
"No! I changed my mind, I don't wanna!" Kim whined from the front door of the cafe as Jackie tried to drag her in. "I don't wanna... I don't wanna!"
"Oh come on, we came all this way to study so just do it!" Jackie scolded her partner.
Sam was pulling Danny along, but the young hero was unable to protest do to the lump on his head. "Sam... you're the devil." Danny said weakly.
"You're not running away from this one." Sam responded.
"Oh Sam." Liz, one of the two 'reforming' criminals that worked at the Deathbucks cafe at the request of the DWMA said with a smile. "Tsugami and her friends are already here. Sit down and well be right with you." Sam was one of the few people that Liz and her little sister Patti actually liked around Death City. Mostly because when they tried to freak her out she pulled an Ecto-gun on them.
"Hi!" Patti said waving in welcome before returning her attention to making a dragon out of hand rags.
But Liz freaked out when Repede stepped through the door. "What is that thing doing here!?" She screamed.
"Oh... I'm sorry. We're here for the study session too." Estelle said from behind the Repede. "Is... is that a problem?"
The master of the cafe looked up at the monster dog and noticed it's tag. "Students of the DWMA are always welcome here." He said flatly before returning to work.
Liz gulped before forcing a smile. "Sor... sorry I shouldn't have freaked, I mean, it's not like he is a witch or a... a ghost." She said with a shudder. Both Danny and Kim's eyes fell slightly at those words. Jackie managed to get Kim loose from the door and drag her over to the table were Tsugami and her friends were studying.
"Hi guys." Sam said as they sat down. She pulled out her books and notes and quickly want to work.
"So, even monsters are more ok than witches and ghosts." Danny said a little half hearted. All the others looked at him in surprise. They didn't have a clue were the topic had come from. But Kim just nodded silently.
"That's just how it is. Like Weapons, monsters are only the descendants of creatures that were experimented on by witches, ghosts, and sorcerers." Kim mumbled. "Some were designed to rampage about but most of those were hunted into extinction by the DWMA. Most witches and sorcerers wanted to use the monsters long term as assistants. These monsters are the more civil and intelligent than any domesticated animal, some even have enough magic of their own to transform into normal looking humans, so there isn't really a reason to be afraid of them. They don't have the 'sway of magic' giving them destructive tendencies, like witches."
"Or the lack of a stable body that causes them to go berserk, like ghosts." Danny added chuckling sadly. "People really are silly to be afraid of Repede. Your average weapon is more dangerous since they have the ability to eat souls." All the weapons at the table looked down in a little shame.
Clang. Danny put his hands on his head to nurse the injure Sam had just given him. "As enlightening as this topic is, philosophy isn't on the exam. So enough with the depressing topics and get to work." Sam said trying to cheer the pair up. But Sam wanted to get off the subject as fast as possible. She had been finding it harder and harder to sleep after finding out the mission of a 'EAT' class weapon. To eat ninety nine keshin egg souls and one witch's soul. Sam was vegan for crying out loud. The idea of eating something's soul was... she shivered.
Thirty minutes into the study session Tsugami spoke up. "It's no surprise that Miss Jackie's math notes are well organized and easy to follow, is it?" She said happily.
"Easy to follow? Which part?" Kim said a little annoyed.
"Stop your complaining and concentrate. You're going to have to break down and memorize the basics by heart." Jackie scolded her meister.
"Miss Meme can remember everything covered by the test." Anya said as if to say it could easily be done.
"Huh? There's going to be a test on this?" Meme asked in surprise.
"What did you think today's get-together was for?" Tsugami asked chuckling at her forgetful friend.
"Oh, of course!" Meme said giggling.
"Aw, Jackie, you're such a straight laced chick, I'm surprised you're not better at teaching." Kim teased. "What can I say? You just don't have a knack for it. Not to mention your dreadful."
"Then why don't you have Ox teach you?" Jackie said sticking her nose in the air. Kim flinched at the mention of her stalker. "He'd be glad to spoon-feed a selfish tanuki like you." Kim scold since Jackie new that her theme as a witch was a tanuki, a raccoon dog. "And while you're at it, you could stand to learn some discipline."
Kim gave in. "Geez, fine. I'll put up with the straight laced chick." She said looking away embarrassed. Seeing the expression on Tsugami's face, like the girl was holding back a giggle Kim jumped on her and put her in a head lock shouting. "What's with the look!? You're pissing me off!" Estelle broke down into laughter.
Sam sighed. "Why don't you try my notes." She suggested to Kim.
"But isn't Phantom using those?" Kim asked looking at Danny who was quietly reading out of Sam's notebook. He reached out one hand and turned a page.
"Na, he fell asleep a few minutes ago." Sam said pulling the booklet out of his hand. Danny didn't even react. The others stared in shock.
"How can he sleep like that?" Estelle asked in shock. "He's still moving around, and his eyes are wide open."
"He's had a lot of practice?" Sam said shrugging. Repede snickered from the floor before turning a page in his own book using a paw.
"Shouldn't you wake him up?" Meme asked.
"Why bother, I may bug him about studying, but he'll do fine." Sam said handing the notes to Kim. "He's smart enough to get by on just what he heard in class. The only reason he got bad grades at our old school was because he could never make it to class."
"Why not?" Anya asked.
Sam paused as if wondering what to say. "How much do you all know about Amity Park?" She asked.
Most of them just looked around confused but Jackie spoke up. "Amity Park is a small town in the central area of the United States that holds the world record for Ghosts sightings." She said as if repeating it out of a text book. The others shivered, except for Kim and Repede.
"That's right, Amity Park had more than one thousand ghosts attack it over the course of one year." Sam said leaning back in her chair. "I never really understood why, but the DWMA never sent anyone to help, we were on our own. And Danny had the worst of it." She said looking over to her sleeping meister. "Being the son of the worlds leading experts in hunting down and dissecting ghosts, the ghosts targeted him in particular. In order to survive we armed ourselves with is parents equipment and fought back. Between me, him, his sister Jazz, and our friend Tucker, we much have captured at least seven hundred ghosts." Sam had a grin of pride as as the others looked horrified. "Ironically, it was all those ghosts trying to kill him that have made him what he is today. We're the best ghost hunters this world has ever seen."
"Is that why Phantom doesn't like to talk about ghosts?" Estelle asked.
"Can you blame him?" Sam asked. No one responded. "Lets just get back to work. This idiot probably won't wake up for a while anyways."
"Nooo!" Black Star screamed to the heavens as he looked at the posted grades for the tests. The grades of all the 'EAT' class students were always posted out into the hall ways. Once upon a time a teacher thought that the judgment of their peers would make them work harder. Black Star did not do well. "This can't be right, I was supposed to get first!" Black Star shouted, but the truth was he was dead last. "Alright next time I'll be number one!" Black Star said before running off.
"He says that, but he only scored an eight." Jackie said disapprovingly as they all watched the ninja run off.
"Yeah, Black Star isn't very smart." Soul said chuckling a bit.
"You do realize you only got a twenty, right?" Maka said angrily to her weapon. "You two really should try studying more. Repede did better than you." The monster dog scoffed indignantly. After all, he had gotten a ninety-five, making him the fifth highest in the class; right after Ox, Maka, Tsubaki, and Jackie, with Sam right behind him.
"I'm just glad I passed." Danny said rubbing sleep out of his eyes. "If they didn't score all subjects together I would probably have failed, I'm no good with history." Danny had managed to pull an eighty.
"Same here." Kim mumbled having pulled a seventy-two. But she nearly jumped out of her shoes as Ox popped out of no where.
"You know I could assist you in your studying my angel!..." He shouted just before being punched hard in the stomach.
"I thought I told you to leave me alone!" Kim shouted before running off away from her stalker, Jackie following along.
Sam was laughing as she watch them go. "I am glad I don't have creepy guy like him following me around." Then she looked back to Danny. "But we all managed to pass... well except for Black Star and Soul, but they don't count as people, right Repede." The monster dog gave another snicker. "This calls for a party. How about this Sunday, the day after the Death Bazaar ends?"
There was a round of agreement among the gathered people and it became a date. They all went off to class looking forward to the weekend.
"I'm telling you, you're buy too much of this stuff." Danny voiced his opinion for the third time that day to a Sam who refused to listen. They were at the Death Bazaar buying food for the party the following day.
"We need to have enough for everyone that wants any." Sam snapped.
"So we need enough for you." Danny mumbled, but he knew Sam could still hear him as she picked up some tofu sausages from a local vender. "Estelle and Repede were raised by dogs, I don't think they want to eat vegan. And Black Star is just a bottomless pit, you might as well just buy rocks, he wouldn't be able to tell the difference. That just leaves you, me, Tsubaki, Kim and Jackie. And you already tried to feed Kim this stuff and she refused."
"I just need to convince them that this is a better solution!" Sam said sharply.
"You never even managed to convince me." Danny mumbled. CLANG! He fell over as Sam smashed him across the side of the head with a hand that had been turned into a spade head.
"Are you insulting my cooking, you jerk!?" Sam shouted before raising the hand again. Danny rose his hands in defense but before Sam could continue her onslaught screams filled the air and people were rushing away from the fountain area screaming bloody murder. The only word that the two DWMA students could understand was the word 'Weapon'.
Danny was on his feet in a moment chasing after Sam who was already over ten feet in front of him fighting her way through the crowd towards the source of the panic. "Sam!" He shouted after her, but he was not finding it easy to keep up in the crowd.
So Sam was the first one on the scene and what she saw she couldn't understand. The one standing in the middle of the Bazaar, at the fountain, was Eternal Feather. The girl's left arm had changed into it's weapon form, a giant switch blade. The weapon girl was attacking everything in reach with a void expression on her face.
"Eternal Feather! What are you doing!?" Anya shout from the stairs near the fountain. Eternal Feather turned to the run away princess. Sam silently cursed as Eternal Feather started running full speed at Anya with her knife arm up.
"Look out!" Sam shouted getting between Anya and Eternal Feather and deflecting the knife arm with her spade hand. Eternal Feather staggered back a few steps but quickly righted herself. "Danny, we have to stop her... Danny?" Sam said finally noticing that her Meister was not there. "Great..." She mumbled as Eternal Feather prepared to attack. "Anya, you're going to have to wield me." Sam said fully turning into her spade form.
Anya was still shocked that her upperclassman friend was attacking her but she still reached out and grabbed hold of Sam's shaft. "Urg... Sam, you're to heavy." She grunted as she tried to lift the spade.
"Oh, that is just great!" Sam snapped as she realized that they didn't have compatible wavelengths.
Eternal Feather rushed forward and Anya staggered back and tripped on the bottom stair step behind her. But before she could be cut up, or even hit the ground she found herself in strong arms as the sound of metal hitting metal rang in the air.
Looking up Anya found that she was in Danny's arms with him holding Sam out in front of them with his left hand. "You ok, Anya?" Danny asked not looking away from Eternal Feather.
"I'm... I'm alright. Thank you, Phantom." Anya said with all the dignity she could muster in such a situation. She was trying her hardest to fight down a blush, but the princess was not known for his self control.
"You're late stupid!" Sam voice came shouting from the spade.
"Sorry, I ran into traffic. But I'm here now." Danny said as he focused his soul waves into Sam and pushed Eternal Feather back with ease. Eternal Feather hit the ground a little ways away from them but soon started to push herself back up.
"Careful Danny, Eternal Feather isn't in control of her actions." Sam warned. Anya was shocked to hear this and so were Tsugumi and Meme who arrived moments after Danny himself.
"I noticed." Danny replied as Eternal Feather turned to them, he could easily see the same pink and blue 'm' like mark that was in the weapon girl's eyes. "But we still need to stop her from causing anymore damage, or hurts herself." Danny put Anya down behind him and held Sam out to the side. "Till form." He mumbled and Sam complied turning into the till. Danny held her near the head and was in a low stance.
Eternal Feather started to run at them and Danny ran forward too. Eternal Feather did as wide swing with her knife like right arm. Danny pointed the head of the till down and Sam shot out between his fingers. As her head hit the ground it pushed Danny up and over Eternal Feather as she hit Sam pole to no effect.
Danny pivoted in the air above Eternal Feather and aimed a chop for the back of her neck to knock her out just like Black Star had shown him, but the back half of the switch blade arm caught the chop. Eternal Feather Feather started to turn to bring her blade up towards Danny. "Hand shovel form." Danny said quickly and Sam glowed and shortened into the hand shovel and Danny used the quicker weapon to block the blade.
After landing, Danny quickly moved in again, switching the shovel to his right hand he blocked another swing from the knife girl. Then using his free left hand he reached out and wrapped his fingers around Eternal Feather's head. "Eternal Feather, wake up!" He shouted. His eyes blazed green as he forced his way into her mind.
Eternal Feather's dream scape was a small village, probably from her home country of Vietnam. But rather than being filled with the important people in her life or her hopes and dreams, it was full of scorpions. Hundreds of little scorpions on ever surface that could be seen. Danny had to stop himself from drawing back in shock. He needed to find Eternal Feather and wake her up.
Quickly moving through the dream scape he found her in the middle of the village square, but she was not alone. A giant scorpion was in the middle of the square and snapped its claws at him as if warning him to stay back. Its tail was wrapped around an unconscious Eternal Feather with the stinger pressed into the girl's neck.
Danny took a shot at it with all the energy he could muster, but it head no effect. Before he could try again a shout brought him out of the dream scape. "Danny, look out!"
Danny had just enough time to pull away as the blade came for him again. He received only a small scratch for his attempt which closed quickly. "Rats, I almost had it." Danny said dropping back into stance.
Eternal Feather started to laugh in a very uncharacteristic fashion. "Don't kid yourself little ghost boy. You can't break my control. I'm out of your league." She said confusing Tsugumi and her friends.
"You're Shaula Gorgon, right?" Danny said he was a bit unnerved that his status as a ghost was being mentioned.
"Oh, you know my name, I'm flattered." Eternal Feather's voice head changed and she moved her human arm up and moved it across her cheek.
"After what happened in the alley, I did my homework. You'll find I am kind of a soar loser." Danny said glancing around the crowd that had gathered. He then whispered to his weapon. "Sam, can you sense a witch nearby?" He asked.
"I don't even know what a witch soul is like, but I'll try." Sam replied and started searching.
"Oh, I've noticed. Watching you train is one of my favorite pass times." Eternal Fea... Shaula said chuckling, but Eternal Feather's face was still transparent making the sound look hallow.
"So you've been watching me... creepy." Danny joked hoping to by Sam time to find the witch.
"Oh, don't be like that. After all you've been looking into me too." Shaula said slyly. "I just couldn't help myself. You are such an interesting little boy. Tell me, why is someone like you a lap dog for Death?"
"I guess I must just like the belly rubs." Danny said shrugging. "And it pays to be on the right side of the law. You should try it sometime. You could start by getting out of my friend."
"Oh, but I don't think that possession is actually illegal. And she was practically made of me." Shaula teased rubbing a hand seductively over Eternal Feather body. "She is a Scorpio after all." The strange marked eyes looked at Danny with a sense of greed behind them. "But if you are only working for Death for the belly rubs, why not work for me instead? I'll give you a belly rub you will never forget."
Danny flushed in horror and the confused crowd grew even more confused. "Wow... lady you're... what eight hundred years old? Don't you think that is robbing the cradle much." Danny said talking a step back. "Besides, I'm allergic to mind control. And I don't look good with blood shot eyes."
"Oh don't be like that." Shaula pouted. "My real body only looks seventeen... and is much better endowed than this one." She said cupping one of Eternal Feather's breasts while licking her lips.
Danny shivered. "Sam, hurry. This is getting weird." He mumbled to his weapon.
"Hey, why don't you try looking for her." Sam replied angrily. She was having no luck finding any weird soul waves and Shaula was sexually harassing her friend using another friend's body.
"You're not going to be able to find me." Shaula teased showing that she knew what they were up to. "I can control a girl like this one without the need to release my Soul Protect. Did you think I would risk my own safety for such an little thing?"
Danny's eye twitched. "Why didn't you just say that sooner so we wouldn't have wasted our time?"
"Because it's fun to tease you." Shaula said before adding. "And I really do want you at my side, Phantom." The pink and blue eyes seemed to look longingly at the half ghost. "Don't pretend you believe in the mission of the DWMA. That everyone should ether live under the rule of Death or be destroyed. That monsters and witches and ghosts are all corrupt and need to be eliminated. Don't you believe it is unfair? Don't you think that it is wrong?"
Danny paused. "I admit... I don't believe in any of those things. But what you are doing is wrong! Eternal Feather isn't even an EAT class student, she has nothing to do with any of this! If you want to change things then try a more peaceful answer!" Danny shouted.
Emotion finally reached Eternal Feather's face. It contorted in rage. "Peace." She said through gritted teeth. "Death has done much in the name of peace. He built this city, in the name of peace. He rules the world, in the name of peace. He skinned his own son alive, in the name of peace. He hunts my sisters like animals and feeds our souls to his weapons, in the name of peace! Even our children are not spared his 'peace'!" Eternal Feather's blade arm rose and spun around so that it's blade was over her neck. Danny's eyes widened. "If our children are not spared... why should his?"
"Don't!" Danny shouted running forward towards Eternal Feather. A single tear came from the possessed girl's eyes as she pulled in the blade, cutting off one of the braids... and into her neck.