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"Alright class settle down." Sid shouted in order to regain control of his class after another one of Black Star's antics. "Today we are going to be going over the effects of incompatible souls; when meister and weapon's souls do not match up properly." He then smirked at the ninja who was practically his adopted son. "And today we happen to have the perfect examples in this class. Black Star and Tsubaki come up here, you too Phantom and Sam."
"Hey, I don't know what your talking about teach! Our soul waves are the best!" Black Star shouted but he walked to the front of the class since he wanted even more attention.
"Alright, now can someone tell me why I picked these four?" Sid asked looking to the class. Maka raised her hand. "Maka."
"Because they all have similar souls." Maka said looking at the four with her perception. "Sam and Black Star's are both very sporadic and aggressive and Phantom and Tsubaki's are timid and... supportive?" Maka said trying to find the words to describe them.
"Very good. Now Sam I would like for you to take on a weapon form... the spade will do." Sid requested. Sam nodded and transformed. "Alright, now Black Star, try picking up Sam."
"Alright, whatever you say teach." Black Star said reaching out and grabbing onto Sam's pole. But the moment his fingers closed around it he gave a shout of pain and let go of Sam. "Phantom, your crazy weapon burned me." He said showing burn makes on his hands. Black Star glared at Sam. "I'm not failing this exercise just because of you!" Black Star tried again to lift Sam, ignoring the pain he managed to lift Sam up.
"Black Star, stop!" Sid said but there was no reasoning with him.
Then Black Star tried sending his own soul waves into Sam and Sam gave a yelp of pain. Turning back into her human from she hit Black Star on the head with her shovel hand. "That hurt you moron!" She shouted at him.
"You started it!" Black Star shouted back holding his head with his hands.
"Stop it, both of you!" Sid shouted over them and placed himself between them. The two eventually stopped and Sid moved on to Tsubaki and Danny. "Alright, now you two."
Tsubaki turned into her ninja star form and Danny tried to lift her. He didn't feel any pain but her found that he was completely unable to make her budge. Even using two hands and putting all his weight behind it, he couldn't lift her.
"You can stop now." Sid said casually. "So now you have seen the two different extremes in incompatibility. Either the soul waves were negatively react to each other and seek to drive each other out and assert its own dominance, or they will not react at all and the meister won't even be able to lift the weapon."
"Professor, I don't understand, they have almost identical wavelengths." Kim said staring hard at the group.
"They do, but no all soul wave complement themselves very well. Sam and Black Star's souls both desired dominance in the link and to be the leader. So they fought against each other, if they continued for too long they could have caused some serious harm to each other." Sid explained. "Phantom and Tsubaki are on the other extreme. Neither one wanted to lead and each was waiting for the other to take control. So in the end, no reaction happened."
"So if your soul waves don't match up then you can never be each other partners?" Estelle asked.
"Yes and no, you will never receive maximum results, but there are meisters who can adjust their soul's wavelengths to match with any weapon." Sid said.
"So... if I change my wavelength, then I would be able to lift Tsubaki?" Danny said looking down at the star. He decided to give it a try. He started to think about what he needed, Tsubaki was Black Star's partner, so he would need a wavelength more like Black Star's.
"I wouldn't get your hopes up. There are very few meisters with souls flexible enough to pull it off." Sid said but Danny continued. He had changed his soul's nature before, he had to every time he used his powers as a ghost. The problem is he did it all through his emotions and practice, and he didn't have soul perception.
Danny's green soul pushed out from his body and stabilized, the blue Phantom 'D' appearing in the center. Danny concentrated trying to imagine what Black Star's soul would be like. The outer boundary of his soul began to flicker and spike out and pulse and the 'D' started to shift taking on the shape of a star.
"His soul... it's changing shape." Maka announced to those in the class that couldn't see souls.
Finally Danny started to lift Tsubaki off the ground. "He... he did it." Sid said more than a little surprised.
A hug grin split across Danny's face and he shouted. "Yahhoooo!" Everyone's jaws dropped. "Was there ever any doubt? Of course I did it, I'm Phantom, I just that badass!" He said spinning around and holding Tsubaki's throwing star form above his head and laughing like... Black Star.
The entire class burst into laughter. "What?" Danny said and the spell was broken and his soul snapped back to normal. He fell on his butt as he found he could no longer carry Tsubaki and the laughter redoubled.
"Phantom, that was the best Black Star impersonation ever!" Kim said through tears of laughter.
"Oh if only I had a camera!" Soul choked. "That was so cool and uncool at the same time!"
"Danny, please never the that again!" Sam said bending over and holding her gut. "The last thing this world needs is two Black Stars."
"Yahoo! I knew all that training would pay off someday!" Black Star shouted happily to everyone's amusement.
"Kill me now." Danny said humiliated.
"Yes... well." Sid managed to say though a coughing fit. "That was... very impressive. But usually meisters don't have to change their whole personalities in over to have some level of control over their soul waves. You can all go sit back down now." And invitation that was gratefully accepted by all but Black Star who had to receive a motivating kick in the butt from Sid. "Remember that any change in your soul wavelength can have a large effect on your ability to resonate with your partner. It doesn't have to be any where near as big as Phantom's dramatic change. And the effect can be either positive or negative. So for today's exercise we are going to..." Sid continued his lecture, but his thoughts were on Danny. He had never seen a soul actually change shape before, at least not without a long period of time... or magic.
'Perhaps I should speak with Stein about this.' He thought to himself. He needed peace of mind about something. With teaching, meister work and the investigation on Traitor and the witch Shaula, he was being pushed to his limits. But Phantom had something to do with the witch Shaula, or at least the witch had taken an interest in the young meister. Sid just hoped that it was nothing serious.
"It's useless." Danny grumbled at he and Sam got back from their latest attempt to look up information on Shaula. So far they had had zero good hits.
"This isn't working." Sam agreed through aside her spider theme backpack. "Maybe we should just wonder the streets hoping to be jumped by a Traitor so we can get one before the Central Intelligence jerks." The weapon girl suggested.
"I don't think she would jump out at us, she probably knows we're looking for her, we haven't been the most discrete about these things." Danny said as he pulled a soda out of the fridge. Then he went back towards the door. "I'm going to go over to Black Star and Tsubaki's in order to train for a little while. I'll probably be out late."
"Sure, just make sure you get enough sleep so you don't sleep in class again. You're worse about that than Black Star and Soul." Sam said waving him off.
"Yes mom." Danny said jokingly before dodging a pillow thrown by said 'mom'.
Danny walked off and down the hall over to his friends room. Knocking on the door he was greeted by Black Star's voice. "Who is it?" He said suspiciously.
"It's me Black Star, same as every night this last week." Danny said rolling his eyes.
"What's the password?" Black Star asked.
"Black Star do we really have..." Danny started but Black Star repeated his demand. Danny sighed. "The shovel is in the shed." He said rolling his eyes. The door opened a crack and Black Star hurried him in.
"I see you managed to escape that crazy weapon of yours again." Black Star laughed a huge grin on his face.
"She knows where I am, she just doesn't know what I'm doing here." Danny pointed out as he followed Black Star into the living area.
"Oh Phantom, your back, want some cookies?" Tsubaki asked showing the ghost boy a plate of chocolate chip. Danny gratefully accepted.
"Thanks Tsubaki. And thanks for letting me work on Sam's birthday present here. It's kind of hard to make a surprise present for her when we live in the same dorm room." Danny said as he moved to the makeshift work area he had been using for the last week.
"Don't mention it, but remember, Halloween is only two days away." Tsubaki pointed out as she put the plate of cookies under Black Star who was doing vertical situps, eating another cookie each time he went down. It was true Sam's birthday was coming up soon. Everyone thought it was a little funny that someone as scary as her was born on Halloween.
"I should be done in a few minutes. I don't have that much left to do." Danny said as he worked. "I had only been waiting on some parts, but now that I have them the rest is easy."
"I still think your crazy." Black Star said laughing. "Giving a girl like that crazy weapon a skin tight purple jumpsuit is bad enough, but you are also giving her guns to shoot you with once she goes ballistic. Not that smart."
Danny only shrugged as he added the right components the the compressor on the ecto-rifle. "It's a ghost hunter thing. You wouldn't understand."
"Whatever, so is anything new?" Black Star asked as he did more sit ups.
"Not really, we're still trying to find any information we can on these Traitor guys, but we keep hitting dead end after dead end. The guys in the Central Intelligence division aren't letting us know anything." Danny complained. "I don't really know what to do."
He was suddenly launched across the room by a punch to the head from Black Star. "What was that for!?" Danny asked rubbing his head.
"What are you stupid!?" Black Star countered standing over Danny with his arms crossed. "What kind of apprentice to a ninja are you!? If they aren't giving you the info you need than just sneak in there and steal it!" Danny's eyes widened.
"Black Star I don't..." Tsubaki started but Danny interrupted her.
"Why didn't I think of that?" He said in disbelief. "Right! Right after I finish this I'll go and get that info we need." Danny said determined as he turned back to his task. Tsubaki looked worried by she didn't say anything more.
It was the dream again. The same one Shaula had had on hundreds of nights before this one. Though it was really a memory. A memory of an event that had happened over eight hundred years before. When the Eight Powerful Warriors had came to one of the witches' settlements and raised it to the ground.
Shaula was just a little girl. She was in the middle of the burning abyss. The screams of her fellow witches slowly died off as their souls were silenced. She had tried her best not the cry, not to draw any attention to the fact that she was still alive as the warriors destroyed everything that the young Shaula had ever known. She had only been around Angela's age at the time, but her older sisters had always told her stories about the Eight Powerful Warriors to scare her. The origins of all madness in the world; Rage, Power, Order, Fear, Wisdom, Seclusion, Loyalty, and Fate. She had often thought about what she would do if they had ever came. And the plan was simple, play dead.
It had been hours since the attack had ended when Shaula finally thought it was safe to move. That is when he made his presence known. "What a tragedy, to befall one so young." Three terrifying voice said in unison, causing the girl to jump out of her skin.
Turning her head she saw him for the first time. One of the Eight Powerful Warriors, the one that had been referred to as 'Fate'. The being before her was a creature to be feared, a being whose very existence could cause people to fall into madness. Three heads sat upon his large shoulders looking the in three different directions. On the right was the head of a Lion, on the left a bull, and in the center was a human head. Huge black feathered wings came from its back from underneath its purple cloak were a serpent like tail extended out of the bottom.
Little Shaula's mixed pink and blue eyes widened in horror as she believed she was looking at her own end. "I see your future." The being said it seemed almost mocking. After all, what kind of future could exist for a witch that was standing in front of one of the Eight Powerful Warriors? "Should I let you live, you will become a powerful witch and one day lead a rebellion against my leader, Madness through Order. You will have a hand in ending the witch hunts for good." Shaula was shocked by what the god was saying. "But!... you will lose your mind, body, and soul before you see your sister witches free." Madness through Fate said all its eyes turning to look at the young witch.
"What is your chose?" Fate's voices demanded.
Shaula was shocked, the god was not simply going to kill her. She had never heard of one actually sparring a witch before. "I... I want to live." She mumbled.
Fate growled causing the girl to shrunk back again. "Then your fate is sealed!" Fate shouted, his madness waves pouring out and filling her with terror, and a glimpse of the future. Of a boy with snow white hair and green eyes with a kind smile. He was a ghost, but also a human.
'He must be the key.' She thought as darkness took her. The madness was sinking into her. 'I will find you...'
Shaula bolted up in her bed breathing heavily. Sweet ran off her enter body as she got up to take a cold shower. But were the nightmare had used to fill her with terror, it know held a different meaning for her. Though she had never seen his true form she knew in her bones that this boy, this living ghost, was the one that Fate had showed her so many hundreds of years ago.
She was the lone survivor of a massacre. But all the witches knew that you didn't survive something like that without a cost. The madness wavelengths that were unleashed on her had twisted her personality. She was considered unpredictable even by witch standards.
"He will help me defeat Death, and set my sisters free from the curse of living in persecution." Shaula said to herself longingly as she washed her body. "He will be... our salvation." Pulling out one of the Scorpio towels she went back to her crystal ball. She sent out her message to her sleeper agent, her first and best servant in Death City to go an steal more information on the DWMA. She wanted to make sure that when she launched her attack, she knew who all of the DWMA were.
She would take control of all the DWMA and turn it against Death, and after the reaper was gone, she would erase all of the DWMA's memories and then her sisters would be free. She pulled out a veil of red glowing liquid. "It will all be over... by the end of All Hallows' Eve."